Native Habitat Design & Ecological Gardening

Self Heal Lawn
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A woman sitting on a stone bench in a lush green garden with various trees, bushes, and plants surrounding her.
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Spring 2025 -- Front yard garden in full sun with colorful flowers and native plants in front of a house in the Kenton neighborhood of NE Portland. A xeriscape garden design with drought tolerant native plants under a partly cloudy sky.
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N Jones Front Native Plant Design
Fall 2026
Spring 2025
Fall 2026
Spring 2025
Spring 2025
Spring 2025
Fall 2026
A lush green garden with dense trees and bushes, a stone platform on a small stone structure, and stepping stones on the grassy ground.
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A lush garden with various green plants, purple flowers, and a small water feature with a stone in the center.
A lush green native garden in part sun with various native plants, trees, and shrubs. Oregon native plants such as vine maple, osoberry, goldenrod, creeping oregon grape, birch leaf spirea, douglas spirea. Backyard habitat platinum certification.
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Plant layout map of Cascara Gardens with color-coded sections and labels, a logo featuring flowers and a hummingbird, and a scale bar at the bottom.
A residential front yard with a concrete sidewalk, a newly installed winding pathway, and a garden with black soil interplanted with various plants and flowers, some of which are outlined with colored sketches.
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NE Portland pollinator garden design
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NE Portland Front Yard Design
NE Portland Front Yard Design
Circa 2012, first native garden design. A gardener in a purple rain jacket holding a 'Certified Backyard Habitat' sign in her backyard garden, with a house and porch in the background.
A detailed landscaping design plan for Cascara Gardens featuring various plantings, trees, and garden areas, including labels and a compass for orientation.
Side yard garden with small trees, rocks lining the garden bed, gravel pathway, and a wooden gate at the end.
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Point Reyes, Prairie Junegrass and Creeping Oregon Grape in a full sun drought tolerant native plant design
Backyard garden with yellow flowers in the foreground, a small wooden shed, a person on a hammock, and lush green trees and plants.
A garden with various green plants and flowers in front of a house with a garage in the background.
A backyard garden with various plants, flowers, and trees, with a house in the background featuring a red and a green chair outside.
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A residential front yard with black mulch, small plants, and scattered fallen leaves in autumn. There is a stone border along the edge and a wooden fence behind. A street with a parked truck, trees, and houses is visible in the background, as well as
View of a house with a front yard, featuring a curved stone pathway, mulch covering the garden, small plants, trees, and a sign on the window reading 'Black Lives Matter'.
Backyard garden with a paved path, trees, a garden bed with plants and fallen leaves, a green chair, and a house with windows. A hose reel is attached to the house wall.
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A garden bed with pink and yellow flowers, rocks, and mulch, enclosed by a wooden fence and surrounded by trees and green foliage.
A garden bed with young plants and soil, bordered by a stone wall, next to a paved area, with a backyard and a red shed in the background.
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SW Front Yard Dense Native Design
SW Garrett Front Native Plant Design
SW Backyard Dense Native Plant Design
Person working on a garden with plants, rocks, and dirt, surrounded by a wooden fence and trees.
Columbia River Front Restoration Plant Design
Columbia River Front Restoration Native Plant Design
A backyard garden with a small wooden shed, a hammock, and lush greenery including various plants and trees.
A garden with a variety of green plants and shrubs alongside a stone-paved pathway, bordered by a weathered wooden fence and a house with windows in the background.
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Oceanspray Holodiscus discolor flowering plant with cream white, splayed clusters of tiny flowers, green compound leaves with serrated edges, set in a lush garden with various green plants and purple flowering plants in the background.
Douglas spirea close-up of a pink flower spike with small fluffy blossoms, bees collecting nectar, surrounded by green foliage under a partly cloudy blue sky.
Close-up of a black and yellow bumblebee on yellow Goldenrod wildflowers in a green meadow.
Close-up of a Tall Oregon Grape branch with dark blue berries, green holly leaves, and a brown woody stem.
Purple flowering Common Camas plant with long green leaves, set against green leafy background.
Bug Hotel
Common Yarrow with small white flowers and a ladybug on a leaf.
Oregon Sunshine yellow flowers growing in a garden bed with rocks, surrounded by green leaves and a wooden fence in the background.
Blanket flower orange, red and yellow flower with a bee on its center, surrounded by green leaves and tall grass.
Pacific Ninebark leafy plant with clusters of white, fluffy, ball-shaped flowers.
Close-up of Douglas Aster purple and yellow Goldenrod wildflowers in a garden with green foliage. Braiding sweetgrass.
Oregon iris purple flowers with green leaves and grass, in a garden setting.
Close-up of Birchleaf or Shiny leaf spirea, white flowering plant with spherical spiky seed pods in a garden.
Nootkas rose, wild native roses, pink wildflowers with yellow centers blooming among green leaves, with a blurred background of garden and sky.
A landscaped garden bed with various green plants, shrubs, and flowering plants next to a house with beige siding. Small landscape lights are placed along the edge of the garden.